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n.
examination, set of questions
1) to administer, conduct, give a ~
2) to draw up, make up, set ( BE ) a ~
3) to take a ~
4) to fail; pass a ~
5) a demanding, difficult; easy ~
6) an achievement; aptitude; intelligence; loyalty ( esp. AE ); placement; proficiency ~
7) a completion; free-association; lie-detector; multiple-choice; objective; true-and-false ~
8) a competency; means ~
9) a ~ in, on (a ~ in mathematics; a ~ on new material)
trial, experiment
examination
10) to carry out, conduct, do, run a ~
11) exhaustive, extensive, thorough ~s
12) an acid, demanding, exacting, severe ~
13) a blood; diagnostic; endurance; laboratory; litmus; means; nuclear; paraffin; Pap; patch; paternity; personality; psychological; road; saliva; screen; skin; tuberculin ~
14) a ~ for (to do a skin ~ for tuberculosis)
15) a ~ on (they conducted a series of ~s on me at the health center)
16) ( misc. ) to stand the ~ of time; the ~ turned out to be positive; to put smb. to the ~
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v.
1) ( D ; intr. , tr. ) to ~ for (to ~ for excessive air pollution; to ~ the urine for sugar)
2) ( D ; tr. ) to ~ in (we ~ed them in English)
3) ( P ; intr. ) some of our students ~ed in the top percentile
4) ( esp. AE ) (s) some students ~ high, others low